Abandoned books
Mar. 19th, 2019 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightreadsI'm really getting into this, it's so freeing.
Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
Post apocalypse fantasy California. I remember that this was very concerned with transliterating stereotypical American high school drama onto post apocalypse survivors, down to the mean rich girl. Lost interest.
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
I should have known better when everyone described this as "lush," which is the kiss of death for me, but yeah, no. Hated everyone. Boring. Writing prettily about boring things is still boring.
The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Admittedly I came into this with a bad attitude, having seen the author behaving horribly to someone online once, but I got a third into this is-it-mental-illness-or-is-it-real bit of nonlinear nonsense and meh. I tend not to like that premise anyway, and I've seen it done better.
Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
Post apocalypse fantasy California. I remember that this was very concerned with transliterating stereotypical American high school drama onto post apocalypse survivors, down to the mean rich girl. Lost interest.
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
I should have known better when everyone described this as "lush," which is the kiss of death for me, but yeah, no. Hated everyone. Boring. Writing prettily about boring things is still boring.
The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Admittedly I came into this with a bad attitude, having seen the author behaving horribly to someone online once, but I got a third into this is-it-mental-illness-or-is-it-real bit of nonlinear nonsense and meh. I tend not to like that premise anyway, and I've seen it done better.
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Date: 2019-03-19 11:45 pm (UTC)